Across
- 2. free-floating photosynthetic plants
- 5. “sea” in Greek
- 7. onions and ogres are like oceans, they have ____(s)
- 8. the _______ redistributes water through our environment
- 9. the deepest ocean layers are called the _____ zone
- 10. noun for the act of being filtered through a thick or porous substance
- 15. the oceans cover about ______ percent of the Earth’s surface
- 16. _____ islands popular for real estate development
- 17. another name for water
- 18. most marine communities depend on _______ organisms
- 19. coral reefs and ______ are among the world’s most productive and diverse ecosystems
- 22. shallow ecosystems in which land surface is saturated/submerged for a part of the year
Down
- 1. corals expel their algal partners and then die via _____
- 3. sharp temperature boundary
- 4. controls light penetration and temperature
- 6. similar to bog except they are mainly fed by groundwater
- 11. special variety of trees that grow in salt water
- 12. occupied by a variety of snails, burrowing worms, fish, and other organisms
- 13. _______ affects the amount of oxygen that can be stored in water
- 14. rock that can contain or transmit groundwater
- 20. depressions in a rocky shoreline
- 21. “Get out of my wooded wetland!”
